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Herbert & Annie Carlton Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Herbert & Annie Carlton Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,883
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various$7,883
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 15 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$62k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+29%

Still filing today

47%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationReligionScience & TechHealthCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • VC
    VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +200% · 44% of their budget
  • PA
    PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $300 · revenue +15%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $300 · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • SB
    SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • SC
    Swift Creek Baptist Church
    one grant, 2019 · $975
  • BA
    BON AIR BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $350

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
2
Liberty Initiative

Biblical worldview advancement

Religion
3
Virginia Society for Human Life Educational Fund

Promoting the Right to Life in Virginia through education.

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4
Indiana Right to Life Incorporated

To educate the public about abortion

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5
Liberty and Health Alliance

To serve humanity through the promotion of medical freedom and the uncensored liberty to speak without recrimination while upholding Gods methods as the best means of optimizing physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Religion
6
Alabama Pro-Life Coalition Education Fund Inc

Educate the public on all issues relevant to abortion.

Civil Rights
7
Family Policy Council of West Virginia Inc

A servant organization that advocates for policies that embrace the sanctity of human life enrich marriages and the safeguard of religious freedom

Civil Rights
8
Anglicans for Life Inc

Anglicans for Life is the only global Anglican Church ministry dedicated to inspiring the Anglican Communion to understand and compassionately apply God's Word when addressing abortion, abstinence, adoption, euthanasia, and Bioethics.…

Religion
9
Liberty Counsel Action

Liberty Counsel Actions mission is to advance religious freedom the sanctity of human life the family responsible government national security and support for Israel through education and advocacy on the national state and local levels.

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10
Merely Human Ministries

To equip pro-life advocates to defend the dignity of life.

Civil Rights
11
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

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12
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas More Society and the most unlike its peers is Healing for the Nations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various — $32,488 · OtherVariousVeritas School — $2,000 · OtherLearn Inc. — $2,000 · Other+21 more — $5,415 · Other+21 moreVIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INC — $22,700 · ReligionVIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INCPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC — $300 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $300 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH — $200 · Science & TechPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE — $100 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $100 · EducationSidewalk Advocates for Life — $100 · HealthTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $100 · Crime & LegalHealing For The Nations — $100 · Philanthropy
Other$41,903Religion$22,700Civil Rights$600Science & Tech$200Education$200Health$100Crime & Legal$100Philanthropy$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INC — $22,700 over 2y, 44% of budgetPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Human Life Foundation Inc — $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSidewalk Advocates for Life — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIO - ETHICAL REFORM — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA RIGHT TO LIFE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHealing For The Nations — $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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